Our condolences go out to the surviving family and colleagues of world-renowned Finnish philosopher and logician, Dr. Jaakko Hintikka, who has passed away.
His obituary is linked here, in Finnish.
Having taught at Florida State University, Stanford, the University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, Dr. Hintikka ended his career as a professor emeritus at Boston University.
Over his career, Dr. Hintikka made great contributions to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science. He is credited as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry. Dr. Hintikka is also revered as one of the main architects of distributive normal forms, possible-worlds semantics, tree methods, infinitely deep logics, and the present-day theory of inductive generalization.
To celebrate Dr. Hintikka’s long life and career, we’ve made free a small collection of his articles.
Photo Credit: Australasian Association of Philosophy
Existence and Predication from Aristotle to Frege
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | Volume 73, Issue 2, September 2006
Quine’s ultimate presuppositions
Theoria | Volume 65, Issue 1, April 1999
Wittgenstein on being and time
Theoria | Volume 62, Issue 1-2, April 1996
The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry
Dialectica | Volume 49, Issue 2-4, June 1995
On proper (popper?) and improper uses of information in epistemology
Theoria | Volume 59, Issue 1-3, April 1993
Dialectica | Volume 45, Issue 2-3, September 1991
Metaphor and the Varieties of Lexical Meaning*
Dialectica | Volume 44, Issue 1-2, June 1990
Kant on Existence, Predication, and the Ontological Argument
Dialectica | Volume 35, Issue 1, June 1981
Dialectica |Volume 31, Issue 3-4, December 1977
Partially Ordered Quantifiers vs. Partially Ordered Ideas
Dialectica | Volume 30, Issue 1, March 1976
Dialectica | Volume 30, Issue 1, March 1976
The Prospects for Convention T
Dialectica | Volume 30, Issue 1, March 1976
The Question of?: A Comment on Urs Egli
Dialectica | Volume 30, Issue 1, March 1976
Comment on Professor Bergström
Theoria | Volume 41, Issue 1, April 1975
Quantifiers vs. Quantification Theory
Dialectica | Volume 27, Issue 3-4, December 1973
‘Prima facie’ obligations and iterated modalities
Theoria | Volume 36, Issue 3, December 1970
“Knowing oneself” and other problems in epistemic logic
Theoria | Volume 32, Issue 1, April 1966
Distributive Normal Forms and Deductive Interpolation
Mathematical Logic Quarterly | Volume 10, Issue 13-17, 1964
Theoria | Volume 27, Issue 3, December 1961
*Written by Jaakko Hintikka and Gabriel Sandu
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